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C K Lee¹, J Y Park, T H Lee

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Cheonan Hospital, Cheonan, Korea. cklee92@paran.com

|June 23, 2009

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